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Scottie_ukScottie_uk
edited June 2007 in Chit chat
When me and the wife visit Atlanta our favourite radio station is Dave FM. Funny name I know.

It can now be found online, and listened to free.

Kind of a mix of 80's and early 90's music, but no Pete Warterman style pop trash. It's great.

I think EMO's would love it.

http://cbsplayer.streamtheworld.com/index.php?CALLSIGN=WZGCFM



Anyone else have a favourite free online enabled radio station?


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  • WinstonWinston
    edited May 2007
    Yes. BBC Six Music. Best of all, no advertising. I was ready to give up on radio in the US - quite often I could drive into work and hear nothing but adverts on my local ClearChannel ahem I mean radio station.
  • misguided_foolmisguided_fool
    edited May 2007
    Mine is: Lastfm
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited May 2007
    misguided_fool wrote: »
    Mine is: Lastfm

    I guess they play nothing but James Last tunes. I was gunna call them hit but the words James Last and hits dont naturally go together.

    http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/j/james_last-voodoo_party.jpg

    http://991.com/newGallery/James-Last-Roses-From-The-So-329464.jpg


    haa haa

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  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited May 2007
    Winston wrote: »
    I could drive into work and hear nothing but adverts on my local ClearChannel ahem I mean radio station.


    Clear channel are a scary corporation, they seem to own almost everything.

    They own some UK radio stations, many of the bill boards in and around lthe big cities. Many UK nightclubs including the ones that once belonged to the Rank Corp and many venu's such as the Cardiff Indoor Arena.


    Why do they let these companies get so big.

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  • milemile
    edited May 2007
    Scottie_uk wrote: »


    Why do they let these companies get so big.

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    They, as in the voices in skarpo's head? :p
  • alchresearchalchresearch
    edited May 2007
    www.club977.com for me - nothing but 80's (including the cheese!)
  • Jumping StackJumping Stack
    edited May 2007
    Scottie_uk wrote: »
    I guess they play nothing but James Last tunes. I was gunna call them hit but the words James Last and hits dont naturally go together.

    http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/j/james_last-voodoo_party.jpg

    http://991.com/newGallery/James-Last-Roses-From-The-So-329464.jpg


    haa haa

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    I'm sure you have somehow slipped into the wrong thread with this (a threadwarp?). You are too late to win the prize. See my previous James Last link.

    http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=16270&page=2
  • HernHern
    edited May 2007
    KerrangRadio for me. :)
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited June 2007
    Yeah me and the wife encountered Dave FM when we drove through Georgia on our way to and from Florida back in March, pretty good stuff. There's a similar station here in Indiana called Jack FM, and their slogan is "Jack FM playing what we want, when we want" and "Jack FM, we play what we want.....because we can". They play allsorts, literally anything, one minute you'll be listening to Joy Division, and they'll segway it with weezer. Or a random Nirvana track (usually Come as you are, but they are quite fond of Lithium,and Polly too), will give way to The Safety Dance.

    Jack FM is a welcome break from the hillbilly bullshit wor' lass likes to listen to, drives me mental. I can't wait til' I can take my driving test and get a real license, instead of this feckin' learners permit, then I can listen to what the frig I want when I want (Just like Jack FM do) :D
    Every night is curry night!
  • WinstonWinston
    edited June 2007
    Talking of US radio stations, when I lived in Houston, I ended up listening to KACC (Alvin Community College) radio on 89.7, once I got sick and tired of wall to wall advertising and repetitive playlists on all the other stations (which were pretty much all owned by ClearChannel). They have a powerful transmitter for a college station, and even though Alvin is outside the city on the south side, you can still receive it up on the north west side.

    Virtually no advertising (just public service types of stuff), and not the usual Clear Channel bland prolefeed. They have a much more varied playlist and put on a lot of stuff you just don't hear on the radio.

    KACC has become a lot more professional, when I came back, they no longer put the kids who'd not ever done broadcasting on reading the news or weather at prime times (sometimes, it was a bit painful - you wondered if they were going to get through the news or weather without collapsing into a bag of nerves!) Their DJs were all pretty good though.

    Still, for a good music station, nothing beats BBC Six Music at the moment. It seems to be gaining quite a following in the US, too (and I'm not really surprised, given the ClearChannel hegemony)
  • BruceNortonBruceNorton
    edited June 2007
    For me during the week there is only one radio station and thats Galaxy FM.
    At the weekend its Galaxy and the Sara Cox show on radio 1
  • ÆlitaÆlita
    edited June 2007
    Sweden's 'Rix FM'
    I stole it off a space ship.
  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited June 2007
    Laila wrote: »
    Sweden's 'Rix FM'
    so thats where Graham Rix is working now...
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • usspeccyfanusspeccyfan
    edited June 2007
    what was the question again? my brain imploded upon seeing the huge amount of punctuation in the title.........
  • usspeccyfanusspeccyfan
    edited June 2007
    oh wait! yes, radio stations.
    the college radio stations are always the best, aren't they?
    in Rhode Island we have a whole of two (Roger Williams University's indie rock laden 88.3 and University of Rhode Island's freeform 90.3)
    I also live in the state of an ivy league college (Brown) who have a hugely popular commercial station (WBRU, the station that broke the Talking Heads and the Ben Folds Five) that is one of the most popular alternative rock stations around AND the descendent of the first college radio station.
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